Bookfacts: The Botanic Gardens of Sri Lanka (A revised and enlarged edition) by D.T. Ekanayake D.T. Ekanayake, a former director of the Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya has produced a little gem of a book, ...

The origin of the book was the existence here at Peradeniya of a very ... a course of years by the well-known botanical draftsman in the employ of the Gardens—Mr. William de Alwis—under ...